Thursday, March 14, 2013
As the crowd headed home after Friday night’s superb opening of LA Opera’s “Porgy and Bess,” I stopped by Kendall’s for a drink and ran into John Walz. It didn’t take more than a…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 08:45AMMonday, September 10, 2007
Beethoven wrote dramatic music, but he was no dramatist. Compared to Wagner, who devoted himself solely to composing music dramas, it’s clear why “Fidelio,” which kicked off the LA Ope…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 09:27AMThursday, September 6, 2007
L.A. Opera’s ‘07/’08 season opens Saturday with Beethoven’s lone opera, “Fidelio.” Regarding the “astonishingly forceful contemporary production,” music director James Conlon…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 09:44AMSaturday, August 11, 2007
Thanks to the efforts of our new Assistant Content Manager in Charge of Events Diana Hufford, we can truly lay claim to having a comprehensive calendar. It now features everything coming up …
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 09:18AMSunday, July 29, 2007
By Minah Yeo “Who could do anything more after Beethoven?” Schubert once asked. Of King Ludwig’s Ninth Symphony in particular, Wagner said that the last symphony had already been writt…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 09:21AMMonday, July 16, 2007
By Michael Mattis A footnote in the program from last weekend’s superb performance of “Othello, a Dance in Three Acts,” by the American Ballet Theatre, reads: The Tarentella (named for…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 09:23AMFriday, July 13, 2007
Can FineArtsLA.com — now updated quarterly! — save American culture? It can certainly help, this according to Michael Mattis, a longtime cohort and Yahoo! scribe who today cited FALA as …
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 09:24AMWednesday, July 11, 2007
This is a new post to tell you, dear reader, why there haven’t been any new posts. Several writers have come forth as volunteers, and assignments are going out. There are also some interes…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 09:25AMThursday, June 21, 2007
The LA Opera announced today that 71-year-old Woody Allen will direct Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi” for the opening of the 2008/9 season. “I have no idea what I am doing,” said Allen…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 09:08AMSaturday, June 16, 2007
This enterprise is too much for one man to handle. If you’re an arts aficionado interested in penning an occasional dispatch for this site in exchange for concert tickets, press previews o…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 09:15AMWednesday, June 13, 2007
Is Manet’s “Bar at the Folies-Bergere” the work of a genius or an ailing fool? Unveiled at the Getty last week in its first appearance on the West Coast, Manet’s celebrated painting …
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 09:17AMWednesday, May 9, 2007
The Norton Simon’s latest exhibit features the work of Russian painter Alexei Jawlensky, a member of the Expressionist group known as the Blue Four. The artists rejected the notion of obje…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 08:42AMFriday, April 27, 2007
Filed under: Opera — Christian Comments (0) The Belle Epoque was a “lovely period in human civilization,” says Lotfi Mansouri. In contrast, our own humble times are “the age of ugly.…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 01:25AMWednesday, April 25, 2007
Filed under: Museums — Christian Comments (0) This week the Getty debuts a new exhibit entitled “Radiant Darkness,” which is devoted to various artists’ renderings of light. Mast…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 07:59AMFriday, April 20, 2007
Either because Tin Pan Alley was running out of original melodies, or because songwriters secretly envied composers of serious music, it briefly became fashionable to turn well known classic…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 08:02AMMonday, April 16, 2007
In anticipation of LA Opera’s production of Franz Lehar’s “The Merry Widow,” which opens April 28, I’ll be running several Lehar-themed stories. First off, I find a lazy Sunday is …
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 08:05AMWednesday, April 11, 2007
Edward Gardner’s baton is a ligtening rod seeking to draw “as much color and drama as possible” from the orchestra. His energy-extracting wizardry will be on display April 14 and 15 wh…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 08:06AMSunday, April 1, 2007
“Music critics are not only a dying breed,” says LA Weekly music critic Alan Rich, “we’re an endangered species.” Though his role may be moribund, according to Rich the music scene…
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 08:10AMSaturday, March 24, 2007
To paraphrase Robert Browning, a woman’s reach should exceed her grasp, or else what’s ballet for? Kelly Ann Sloan is a perfectionist, which is precisely why she’s devoted her life to …
SOURCE: www.fineartsla.com at 08:13AM 
